Aunt Sally
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman. [from 19th c.]
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1
- Mrs. Morel did not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the Aunt Sally man, screeches from the peep-show lady.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1
- (chiefly, UK) A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted. [from 19th c.]
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage 2000, p. 95:
- He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron.
- 2008, The Economist, Manmohan Singh's burning ambition ↗
- IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.
- 2013, Irish Examiner Stakes couldn't be higher ↗
- The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing.
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage 2000, p. 95:
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